The Big Egg Drop.

Our task was to design a enclosure/device that would protect an egg from being dropped from three floors up, using only 1 roll of masking tape and 6 straws.

To come up with our final idea we had an open discussion about the kind of method we would chose. We quickly eliminated the idea of using a parachute as the materials we had where not sufficient enough to build one, that left us with the option of wrapping the egg with the masking tape and straws. After having a detailed discussion about the features of our enclosure we did a simple diagram to outline these.


In the end our egg broke on the third floor although compared to the other groups designs I feel ours worked well.